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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ownedbybear, post: 1156569, member: 29&quot;]The British ones I&#039;ve seen have all been real silk. You&#039;d not bother doing a careful hand rolled edge on something made to carry concealed to war. Quicker and didn&#039;t need specialist skills to just turn and hem stitch it. </p><p><br /></p><p>As to the sources, we were making parachutes from silk, too. We weren&#039;t at war with China. Or India, of course, which is where most of it came from, and was our colony. Rayon production was scaled right back, Courtaulds were doing other things. </p><p><br /></p><p>Looks right to me, anyhow.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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